Excerpt from The History of the Kirk of Scotland, Vol. 2 First book OF discipline. OF the ministers. Their election and admission. What things are chiefly required in the ministers, Of their office and duty, The manner of electing pastors or ministers, Of the elders and their office and election, Of the deacons and their office and election, The weekly assembly of the ministers, elders, and deacons, Interpretation of the Scriptures, Form and order of the election of a superintendent, appli cable also to the election of all other ministers, the order or ecclesiastical discipline. The Necessity of Discipline, What Discipline is, For what cause it ought to be used, The order of proceeding In Private Discipline, What things are to be observed In Private Discipline, Of Public Discipline, and the end of it, Excommunication the last resource, Rigour in punishment to be avoided, God's Word the only rule of Discipline. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.